Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volume 19J. Sibbald, 1802 |
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... human paffions , and the varie- ty of human wants . He He feldom brings an amorous fen- tence from the depths of fcience ; his thoughts are easily understood ; and he has a juít claim to popularity , be- caufe he writes to common ...
... human paffions , and the varie- ty of human wants . He He feldom brings an amorous fen- tence from the depths of fcience ; his thoughts are easily understood ; and he has a juít claim to popularity , be- caufe he writes to common ...
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... human actions . This de fire , though not in every cafe the ftrongeft of our active principles , is per- haps that which preffes molt upon the attention , is molt frequently summon- ed to exercife , and accounts for the greatest number ...
... human actions . This de fire , though not in every cafe the ftrongeft of our active principles , is per- haps that which preffes molt upon the attention , is molt frequently summon- ed to exercife , and accounts for the greatest number ...
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... human enjoyment , prefent before the eye of the mind all their treafures , and af- fure us , with a confidence which dreads not the contradiction of ex perience , that these treasures will one day be our own . The ideas of which thefe ...
... human enjoyment , prefent before the eye of the mind all their treafures , and af- fure us , with a confidence which dreads not the contradiction of ex perience , that these treasures will one day be our own . The ideas of which thefe ...
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... human happiness . Hope , fo far as it is fupported by reafon , and not merely by inclination , is founded on a fpecies of inveftiga . tion which is rarely fallacious ; and almost all its pleasures are anticipa tions of what is ...
... human happiness . Hope , fo far as it is fupported by reafon , and not merely by inclination , is founded on a fpecies of inveftiga . tion which is rarely fallacious ; and almost all its pleasures are anticipa tions of what is ...
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... human authority . But it was portion of his time in illuftrating and defending its doctrines On the Discoveries and Character of Sir Isaac Newton . 19 A Difcourfe on the Difcoveries and Character of Sir Isaac Newton; read at a meeting ...
... human authority . But it was portion of his time in illuftrating and defending its doctrines On the Discoveries and Character of Sir Isaac Newton . 19 A Difcourfe on the Difcoveries and Character of Sir Isaac Newton; read at a meeting ...
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Page 345 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end, all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage ; and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was placed.
Page 469 - Hidalgo, and the said article and the thirty-third article of the treaty of Amity, commerce, and navigation...
Page 134 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.
Page 345 - Highness prevented him, and kissed him as if he had been an equal, saying : " I am sorry, Cluny, you and your regiment were not at Culloden : I did not hear, till very lately, that you were so near us that day.
Page 254 - ... is sufficiently obvious. By carrying on a connected series of important events, and indicating their relations to the contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference is exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost.
Page 112 - Like most poor men, he got a wife first, and had to get household stuff afterward. It took him some time to get out of readyfurnished lodgings.
Page 10 - Andero' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors, that he attained, by a felicity like instinct, a style which perhaps will never be obsolete; and that, 'were we to judge only by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourscore.
Page 102 - B. the eldest, a boy of ten years old, stepped forth and told me how many friends and admirers I had in this country, and that he reckoned himself in the number, from the pleasure he had received from the reading of many passages in my works. When he had finished, his brother, the Count de P., who is two years younger, began his discourse, and informed me, that I had been long...
Page 316 - Ireland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty...
Page 232 - Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.